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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.fdt.net!fdtnet!yoda.fdt.net!fubar From: Fu Bar <fubar@gnv.fdt.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD disk io performance Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 03:33:46 -0400 Organization: Florida Digital Turnpike Lines: 17 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961019033204.29108V-100000@yoda.fdt.net> References: <86g23ey1uc.fsf@romulus.ihosteng.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: yoda.fdt.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: fubar@yoda.fdt.net In-Reply-To: <86g23ey1uc.fsf@romulus.ihosteng.priv.no> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:33719 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29559 On 16 Oct 1996, Ivar Hosteng wrote: > I have been using Linux for 1 1/2 years now. I am using my system as a > news server and a mailserver for a small network. When the news is > beeing expired I can notice a clearly drop in disk performance. The df > command takes about 2-6 seconds to complete and logging in also has This is because the df you are using on linux was likely compiled with the sync option...where it does a sync before reporting on space. Get the source, and recompile, and df will be speedy no matter what your system is doing. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <jlewis@fdt.net> | Unsolicited commercial e-mail will Network Administrator | be proof-read for $199/hr. ________Finger jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net for PGP public key_______